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Aug 25, 2019
Abigail rated it
really liked it Recommends it for: Anyone Who Enjoyed the First Story About Joey & Origami Girl
Joey the newspaper boy and his occasional super-hero savior, Origami Girl, return in this second picture-book devoted to their adventures. When Joey's favorite bookshop is threatened with closure because the mayor wants to build a superstore on its location, he calls on Origami Girl for help, and that paper heroine in turns rouses an army of origami figures, taken from children's favorite stories. When appealing to Parliament doesn't work, the origami army confronts the builders directly, aided Joey the newspaper boy and his occasional super-hero savior, Origami Girl, return in this second picture-book devoted to their adventures. When Joey's favorite bookshop is threatened with closure because the mayor wants to build a superstore on its location, he calls on Origami Girl for help, and that paper heroine in turns rouses an army of origami figures, taken from children's favorite stories. When appealing to Parliament doesn't work, the origami army confronts the builders directly, aided by the builders' own children, eager to see their favorite story characters in paper form...Having enjoyed
Newspaper Boy and Origami Girl , I picked up The Little Bookshop and the Origami Army! expecting to like it, and I was not disappointed. As a long-time bookseller, I always appreciate stories featuring bookshops, particularly ones that emphasize what an important community resource they can be. As always with Michael Foreman's books, I found the watercolor artwork here appealing, and I particularly enjoyed seeing some famous storybook characters come to life. Recommended to anyone who read and enjoyed the first book about Joey and Origami Girl, as well as to anyone looking for children's stories about bookshops, superheroes, and/or young people getting involved in their community. ...more 
Oct 20, 2019 Alice Bennett rated it really liked it
A really lovely book about the characters in beloved storybooks like Alice in Wonderland and Charles Dickens, to help save a bookshop from closing down. The book is ideal for EYFS and year 1 children because they will easily be able to make text-text connections with the different characters involved in the story. They might also connect the book to something like the Lego movie where characters from all different worlds work together to solve a problem and help someone.
The book highlights the
A really lovely book about the characters in beloved storybooks like Alice in Wonderland and Charles Dickens, to help save a bookshop from closing down. The book is ideal for EYFS and year 1 children because they will easily be able to make text-text connections with the different characters involved in the story. They might also connect the book to something like the Lego movie where characters from all different worlds work together to solve a problem and help someone.
The book highlights the importance of using your imagination and how powerful it can be. I would explore this with children to encourage them to be great readers and read for pleasure!
Furthermore, my class would write their own stories about their own favourite book characters coming to life and having an adventure together.
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3.5 stars. When a bookshop is about to be demolished to make way for a superstore, a boy enlists the help of Origami Girl - a superhero who forms out of the newspapers in his bag. She makes favourite characters from children's books come alive and they set out to save the bookstore.This book has a really good premise. I especially love the part where the Mayor wants to destroy the Origami army because they're only made of paper, but they yell out that they're made of ideas and imagination which
3.5 stars. When a bookshop is about to be demolished to make way for a superstore, a boy enlists the help of Origami Girl - a superhero who forms out of the newspapers in his bag. She makes favourite characters from children's books come alive and they set out to save the bookstore.This book has a really good premise. I especially love the part where the Mayor wants to destroy the Origami army because they're only made of paper, but they yell out that they're made of ideas and imagination which can never be destroyed. The illustrations are also really good and it was fun to try to identify the different characters.
However, I felt it was a bit too politicised. Politicians were asleep and 'snoring like pigs round a trough'. They were painted as useless people who only care about holidays. I thought some potential educational opportunities were also lost. For a book that features an 'Origami Army', it would have been good to at least say what Origami was and maybe even include a couple of patterns children could make. It would be possible to read the whole book and still not know what Origami was, except that it had something to do with being made from paper.
Still it's a good message about the importance of imagination and ideas and highlights the need to save the corner bookstore. It also shows how the 'little people' can win just causes. I think it was just the political bit that put me off.
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Nov 11, 2020 Ella rated it liked it
In a mission to stop the local bookshop being knocked down, a little boy and his origami girl round up lots of characters from children's favourite books to show the importance of imagination to children. The book touches on quite advanced issues such as the replacement of small local businesses with large scale companies and the allowance of this from the government. This book could therefore be used in the older years of primary school if covering these topics in geography. However, I think th In a mission to stop the local bookshop being knocked down, a little boy and his origami girl round up lots of characters from children's favourite books to show the importance of imagination to children. The book touches on quite advanced issues such as the replacement of small local businesses with large scale companies and the allowance of this from the government. This book could therefore be used in the older years of primary school if covering these topics in geography. However, I think the story is best suited to FS and KS1 children who can identify with the text-to-text connections of characters in the story. Children could select their own favourite character from any story and role play mixtures of these characters in different scenarios, writing a story about their adventures. ...more
A tale of imagination and courage comes out in full throttle when a bookstore is getting closed down by the mayor to make a super-centre. To help make a stand characters from favourite children's books come to life from the pages.
Aug 12, 2017 Claire rated it really liked it
This is a great story about supporting your local bookshop. I loved how it was the workers who started the downfall of the big fancy store because they were reading stories to their kids.
Feb 11, 2018 Ely rated it it was ok
Read this for storytime at work. It seems like I'm not following the crowd here but I thought this lacked the childhood magic. Read this for storytime at work. It seems like I'm not following the crowd here but I thought this lacked the childhood magic. ...more
This is a rather sweet little story about saving a bookshop from being bulldozed to make way for a superstore. It's done with the aid of Origami Girl, the newspaper boy's friend, who brings to life all the children's favourite book characters, and the army they form eventually succeeds in its plan.My grandchildren loved recognising the storybook characters and voted this book "Cool!"
This is a rather sweet little story about saving a bookshop from being bulldozed to make way for a superstore. It's done with the aid of Origami Girl, the newspaper boy's friend, who brings to life all the children's favourite book characters, and the army they form eventually succeeds in its plan.My grandchildren loved recognising the storybook characters and voted this book "Cool!"
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Oct 10, 2015 Karen Barber rated it it was amazing
Beautiful illustrations. Powerful story. How can I not give 5 stars to a book that is all about the wonder of books, and how they can give hope? My youngest son, when asked about which part of the book he'd enjoyed, said he loved that the bookshop stayed open! Beautiful illustrations. Powerful story. How can I not give 5 stars to a book that is all about the wonder of books, and how they can give hope? My youngest son, when asked about which part of the book he'd enjoyed, said he loved that the bookshop stayed open! ...more
Jul 02, 2015 D.peabody rated it it was amazing
A lovely story about the power of ideas and imagination and books. Beautifully illustrated.
Feb 01, 2017 Ian Wilson rated it it was amazing
A wonderful story about the power of books and imagination. Beautiful illustrations work hand in hand to this simple story that is bound to put a smile on your face no matter what age you are.
Michael has worked on magazines, book jackets, animated films, TV adverts, and even for the police, sketching criminals described by witnesses. As well as illustrating many of his own books, Michael has illustrated over a hundred books for authors such as Shakespeare, J. M. Barrie, the Brothers Grimm, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. Michael has travelled widely - to Africa, Japan, the Arctic Circ Michael has worked on magazines, book jackets, animated films, TV adverts, and even for the police, sketching criminals described by witnesses. As well as illustrating many of his own books, Michael has illustrated over a hundred books for authors such as Shakespeare, J. M. Barrie, the Brothers Grimm, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. Michael has travelled widely - to Africa, Japan, the Arctic Circle, China and Malaysia, the Himalayas, Siberia and New Zealand - to research his books. "I do a lot of research when I'm travelling - I find it thrilling to discover the particular 'art' of different landscapes and work them into a book. But I find I have to travel by myself, otherwise I'm constantly getting involved in other people's impressions of a place... I try to be invisible when I'm travelling, so I tend to listen in on conversations rather than participate in them - I just want to look and draw."
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